HR Advisor

Job title: HR Advisor

Salary: up to £40,000 per annum

Annual leave: 25 days plus bank holidays. Up to 3 additional holidays for length of service.

Company pension scheme – salary sacrifice

Death In Service benefit – 3x salary

EAP: Help@Hand

This role is based on site in Cleckheaton. 

I am currently partnering with an award-winning 2^nd generation family business with an exciting opportunity for a HR Advisor to join the team. The business is a team of specialist Employment Law, HR and Health and Safety advisors that work with over 600 client companies throughout England. Passionate about what they do and genuinely want to add value to their SME client base.

An ambitious company with a brilliant track record of year-on-year growth, profitability and development. Placing significance on values such as graft, together, heart and grit. These core principles run right through their business and as a result, in all of their dealings with clients. The vision is to grow year on year, however they want to do this in the right way, maintaining their values and adding stability to the business. Building a great reputation is paramount and something that has been key to their business strategy from day one. They have been in business 20 years and are a team of real people. Encouraging individuality and personality and channel this into creating a standout experience for their clients.

They are looking for a confident HR Advisor, who can hit the ground running, enabling them to continue to deliver a high level employment law service to their growing client base. Passionate about working with their clients to deliver commercial, accurate and timely advice to support and protect their business. They judge themselves on how happy they make their clients; that’s it.

No day is the same. You can be advising a national retailer on a redundancy situation on the Monday, to meeting with the owner of a local estate agency to discuss a sensitive disciplinary case on the Tuesday. The work is fresh, dynamic and engaging providing a platform for professional growth.

As an employer they value the benefits of a good work life balance and promote a positive working environment. They genuinely care about each member of the team and their contribution the business and clients.

THE ROLE

• To act as a dedicated HR Advisor to the growing client base of SME companies.
• Provide commercial, accurate and timely employment law advice to client companies on all areas of employment law including redundancy, capability issues, discipline and grievance and discrimination in the workplaces etc.
• Promote a positive and proactive approach to employment law.
• Build strong relationships with client companies and develop a good understanding of their business, enabling you to add value to their bottom through commercial employment law advice.
• Develop employment law policies and procedures and contracts of employment on behalf of client companies.
• To write legal articles and comment pieces for marketing and PR purposes as and when required.
• To comply with all relevant standards and professional advice.
• To ensure all advice and support provided is appropriately documented, in accordance with the business systems.
• Delivery of face to face and online training.  
• Engage with and promote the business’ core values.
• To represent the business in a professional manner at all times.

Qualification and Experience:

• Law degree preferably or HR qualified (no requirement to have qualified as a solicitor).
• Previous experience working in an advisory and/or consultant capacity.
• Sound knowledge of employment law including the ability to advise independently on areas such as redundancies, contractual issues, disciplinary, capability and discrimination.
• Experience advising SMEs.

Core competencies:

• Rationale thinker with a sound commercial awareness and an understanding for business.
• Excellent communication skills in writing, business presentations and interpersonal communication and the ability to influence at an executive level.
• Strong ability to build and maintain client relationships.
• Excellent time management / organisational skills.
• Good team player and independent worker.

• Demonstrates a high degree of confidentiality in interpersonal interaction.
• Must exhibit a commitment to continuous personal learning.
• Desire to work within an ambitious team and provide clients with an excellent service.

Personal qualities:

• Personable
• Focused
• Driven
• Reliable
• Positive and proactive
• Resilient

For further information on this role, please reach out to: Imogen Parr on 0161 641 7756 or send over your CV to: imogen.parr@morson.com